Strange problem with mouse cursor for dragging

[genterminl]

(I'd be very happy if someone could suggest a better Subject wording.)

For quite a while now, I have a problem that when use the mouse to drag a divider (such as between two panes) the vertical and horizontal icons seem to be switched. When I'm dragging a vertical divider right/left, the icon is two horizontal lines with up and down arrows, but when I drag a horizontal divider up/down, the icon is two vertical lines with the arrows pointing right/left.

Right now, I can't even find the actual files that contain the pointers, so I don't even know the appropriate terminology to use to describe it. Since I can't attach images, I'll attempt some ascii art

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The left one shows up when dragging right/left, and the right one shows up dragging up/down. That seems backwards to me. I'm guessing it is a switched naming on the icon/cursor files, but I can't find them.

I'm running mostly KDE, but this primarily happens in Balsa (email client) which is a Gnome app - so I don't know which themes to concentrate my looking in.

Thanks for any suggestions.

(sorry for the immediate edit - I hit submit instead of preview)

[PeGa!]

If this doesn't happen system wide, my bet is that there is some theme misconfiguration at gtk level. Try to reproduce the issue with different gtk applications, and if it's a consistent behaviour, then look for the GTK theming on KDE, and try to change the cursor theming for GTK (install a new one first if necessary).

[genterminl]

Thanks for the hints, but I managed to track it down yesterday. Under /usr/share/icons/ I have 16 folders/themes. For two of them breeze_cursors and Breeze_Snow, they have split_h and split_v as symlinks to col-resize and row-resize. Note that split_h pointing to col_resize make sense, resizing a column is adjusting a split horizontally. The theme which seems to have the actual cursors I'm using (at least for Balsa) is KDE_Classic, which along with Oxygen_Black, _Blue, _White, _Yellow, and _Zion have col-resize and row-resize as symlinks to split_v and split_h, which is the opposite match from the first two. All of those are part of kde-plasma/oxygen, so I plan to file a bug for those mis-set symlinks.

[edit: bug 629550 submitted]